Aaron Davis

My research broadly focuses on catchment water quality in northern Australia, particularly the role of anthropogenic stressors in aquatic communities. One key area of interest is in identification of progressive agricultural practices that offer improvements from a natural resource management perspective to industry, while also ensuring the long-term social and economic viability of farming enterprises. I am also interested in better quantifying the temporal and spatial extent of water quality contamination in coastal freshwater and estuarine wetlands, particularly with regard to chronic, sub-lethal exposure to pollutants.

Other areas of research interest broadly include fish ecology, particularly size-related trophic ecology and the evolutionary processes influencing the present-day Australasian fish fauna. This includes the biogeographic, phylogenetic and paleoecological drivers that have shaped the unique contemporary fish assemblage structure evident in Australian freshwaters. Other research interests include landscape ecology in relation to wetland connectivity, and the identification of primary production sources for aquatic communities and relationships to flow regime (i.e. dietary and isotopic ecology).